Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Clyde and Shirley are getting it from both Mr P and Mr LC!

Whenever they make a pullet or hen a squawk those two come and clobber them.

The horses find it all very entertaining!
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Truly is watching them picking through the poop in the wheelbarrow.

Your horses watch Chicken TV!

 

[Marie2020]

Nancy is happy! I love to see chipper happy pups! Any idea of her birthdate?

I reckon around 4. The vets may have a better idea. She's loving toys now. So she's still a baby

 

[Sylvester017]

 

[BY Bob]

It was rainy earlier, but stopped now… foggy though. I opened the barn door but the chooks have no real desire to go outside they don’t like the snow.

Hopefully the snow will be all melted by Monday. I will let them out a bit then. If we don’t get any further frigid temps for the rest of the winter I will be happy.

Weather whining tax

Cayenne is sporting a nice beard and muffs in honour of HRH Aurora.

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Those are exceptional. Aurora approves!

 

[BY Bob]

And one of the ladies is back online.

I got a egg from one of the speckled sussex's this morning. I think Corona will be next. She is sporting big bright red wattles and a comb again.

That's good news for you. Congrats!

 

[BY Bob]

Coops are empty. I only cried when I got all the decoy eggs in the basket and...it could have been real eggs from my girls so I just broke down.

It's hard. All we can do is remember them fondly.

I felt the same way when I cleaned up the blue and white fake eggs the other day. Who knows if I'll ever have another blue layer now that Glynda is gone and well Phyllis is missed every day.

 

[BY Bob]

Hubby says 9-10 weeks and we will have new pets. Whenever our family friend is able to get us eggs to hatch.
The lady I gave bantams to will be setting eggs aside for me too

That's not really too long. It will be here before you know it!

 

[BY Bob]

Look around the yard...she may be laying a private nest somewhere else teehee...

DH makes a perimeter walk once a day just in case... Not often, but once in a blue moon he'll find an egg under the coop, at the run entrance, in a garden bed, etc. We watched a chicken years ago casually walking as an egg dropped from her behind & she just kept on walking!

They are locked in the complex right now. There is no egg laying going on anywhere these days.

 

[rural mouse]

Their phantom eggers are pretty
I really need to hatch some low-risk eggs before I go buying any boujie shipped ones haha

See if you can get birds from some semi-local Amish. I recall reading something (or hearing through the grapevine) a couple years ago that their birds tended to be really hardy.

 

[Ponypoor]

No broom?

I was using it